The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-02
MISSING LINKS.

Thin plates of metal in the backs OF
books are new London notion.
The fashionable lasiies of Cleveland.
q. have taken TO horseback riding.
The late Count Benst was almost
rival of Liszt In the favor OF women.
The use OF bicycles and tricycles is to
be regulated by law in Philadelphia.
A Minneapolis man is building S2o,-
600 log house right in the heart OF the
town.
San Francisco claims population of
800 900. which includes $4,000 Mongo-
liAns
The pansy is Mrs, Cleveland's favor
ite flower, and she has her dinner-table
decorated with them.
Nathan Hobbs. of Peenfield, Ga, who
is 90 years old, works every day and
reads without spectacles.
There are two counties in Speaker
Carlisle's district that never had a rail-
road or telegraph station.
An Ohio damsel is said To have re-
ceived nInety-nine offers of marriage
during the past two years
The dresses of q western actress are
described in local paper as poems,
and very short poems. at that I"
Thirty tons of coal are required to
heat the greenhouses OF one OF the best
florists in Boston during the winter.
A deposit of .'black mud" recently
discovered in Garland county. Arkan-
sas, is said to yield $40 in silver TO the
ton.
Irouuois, the only American horse
that ever won the English Derby. is be-
ing wintered on a farm near Nashville,
Tenn.
The Catholic churches of Pittsburgh,
ON Squirrel hill to ba used for n ceme-
terry. The ground cost $4,000.
A newly repaired house in Charleston
has been painted lilac, and the neigh
bors are MS much interested in the dec
Grafton as a new development of earth
quake results
Some northern manufacturers of
stoves are moving southward in conse-
quence of western competition and on
account of the cheapness of iron in Ala
bama and Tennessee.
A single sheet OF paper ~ inches
wide and "a miles long was made with
out a break in paper-mill ut Water
town. N. Y. n few days ago. The sheet
weighed 1907 pounds.
A deposit of pure asphaltum. from
fifteen to twenty feet thick, has been
discovered near Thistle Station in Utah.
Ii is worth $40 a ton. and the expense
of mining is only ~ cents.
The New York Commercial Adrer-
tfser says: The money left ex-Judge
Hilton by Mrs. Stewart in trust viii
amount to more than $l0.000,0 600. and
he can spend it as he sees fit.
Mark Twain is getting old very fast.
but he does not like TO be told of it
HIS hair is nearly white, but Mark per-
sists that this was caused by sitting in
damp churches out in California.
A patent for a gate was granted to a
Tennesseean the other day, and Mem
phis newspaper heads a paragraph con-
tanning this information: The Native
Genius of Tennessee as Illustrated by
Her Inventors.
The nurse of the baby Alfonso XIII.
OF Spain is famous girl now. When
the royal young>ter received his three
decorations from the King of Portugal
she exclaimed: Now | trust his little
Majesty will keep his nose clean"
Roscoe Conkling. describing a wit
ness on the other side of the case:
'-Genilemen. think | can see that wit.
ness now-his mouth stretching across
the wide desolation of his face, foun-
tain of falsehood. and a sepulcher o;
run.
In 1870 the village of Durham, n c.,
contained $50 inhabitants. Now il has
$500 and two or three thousand Just
oltside the boundaries. The valuation
has risen from $4,000 TO IS, 500. 900.
Tobacco, cotton and wooden factories
account for this.
Claus Spreckels. the sugar king, has
just returned in high dudgeon from the
Sandwich Islands. He saws Kalakaua
is fond of drin kng-saloons, and is heav
lily in debt 20 England. 1t is likely thai
while Kalakaua takes the beer England
will seize the Sandwich.
The relationship of the members of q
family in Cleartield County, Peunsyl
vania, is so thoroughly tangled tha
some of the children don't know theil
uncies from their grandfathers. This
is due to the fact that certain mar
and his two sons are married to three
sisters.
A Kingston, N Y, LAWYER took tn,
zap On EadistOOE III MS OlllIC, AHt
other day, to let out steam, and forgo
10 replace it Soon after he went out
on business, and when he returned
found the steam had thoroughly steam
ed up the law library, and the atmos
phere was SO hot that it had cracked th'
glass of one of the windows.
DR. Wiederman, so long the amanu
ensis and pupil of Ranke, is in an in
sane asylum near Berlin. He suffered
so much from overwork on the last vol
ume of Ranke's history and from tn,
nervous excitement attending the las
illness and death of his master, that hi
mental powers became unsettled.
At recent dinner party in Boston
Mass, six thousand red roses ornament
ed the tables. There was not sufficien
room for the dishes, and the display
savored more of vulgarity than art. bu
the host. says the journal. was proba
bly, satisfied with his efforts TO surpas
all others in floral ornamentation.
"A colored man in a New York hospi
tai had his bowels taken out and wash
ed. A patient in London had his dis
eased lung tissues burned out Whel
the surgeons learn how to extract ant
disinfect a bad heart they will prove
benefactors indeed to the rest of tn,
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